Read time: 6 minutes | Forward to a friend A few years ago, I watched a talented colleague get laid off. She was great at her job—really great. But when she started looking for what was next, she had nothing to show for a decade of work except a resume full of internal titles nobody outside the company recognized. No articles. No conference talks. No network that knew her by name. She wasn't s...

Read time: 5 minutes | Forward to a friend A few years ago, I sat across the table from one of the most brilliant data scientists I've ever met. This person had solved problems that entire teams couldn't crack. Published nothing. No LinkedIn presence. No conference talks. Completely invisible outside their company walls. That same week, I watched someone with a fraction of that talent post a b...

Read time: 5 minutes | Forward to a friend Everyone's talking about the 4,000 people Block just cut. And they should be—losing your job is devastating. But there's an angle to this story that almost nobody is covering, and it might matter even more to your career than the layoffs themselves. What happens to the people who survived? One of them, a data scientist named Naoko Takeda, was offered ...